Introduction

Educational Gaming is controversial from the aspect of time, cost, management, design and learning. Throughout this work, you will explore some of the gaming issues, and create a couple of games, so that you have a better idea of where games may fit into learning.
Some questions you may ask yourself:

• What are the kinds (classification) of games?
• How can games foster learning and how can games inhibit learning?
• As an instructor, what kinds of games do you use for what kinds of purposes?

Process

Play Games and Review Games out there!

TASK 1:
Take at least 1 HOUR and review different types of games and options out there. Have FUN! You may find more on your own, but please check out 1 or 2 from the list below.

• SEE a bunch on Delicious (NOT everything will be useful) - http://www.delicious.com/rajansock/games?page=1
• Bio-Feedback: http://www.wilddivine.com/
• Making Games or animations (Levels of Programing & Authoring) - View them
  • Phun (Junior High/High School - NEAT): http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home
  • Scratch (Elementary - High School): http://scratch.mit.edu/
  • Squeak- (Elementary - Middle)
    • Video on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShr7ZHsOfI
    • Download: http://www.squeak.org/About/
  • Alice (Elementary - High School) - http://www.alice.org/
  • Stencyl -http://www.stencyl.com/

TASK 2:

Make a WYSIWYG Game

Use the WYSIWYG to create a game. Spend about 1-2 hours, but STOP then. You may use content from this course, or you may use something that works into a lesson for teaching something else. You do NOT have to work alone, but can create with another.

Remember: Save the page that is housing your game. It may be a web address or print out. You will share what you have done in class next week.

• SIMPLE Vocabulary & Math
  • Play Kids Games: http://www.playkidsgames.com
    • Sample: http://www.playkidsgames.com/member-homepages.php?d=3962
• Fact Games - That YOU make.
  • Super Teacher Tools: http://www.superteachertools.com/
• Puzzle Makers - http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
• Purpose Games - http://www.purposegames.com/
• Class Tools -http://www.classtools.net/
• Flash Card review (in different forms) - http://quizlet.com/

STOP

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Read about Gaming

What are the types of games out there:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_games
• Educational Games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_game
• Want a review of games: VIDEO GAMING - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25927/
• Becoming and educational game designer - NYU article

1. What does Seymour Pappert have to say and why do we care?

• Overall: Pappert.org or Wikipedia
• MIT-Media Lab
• Edutopia
• Mindstorms
• Pappert Planet

Seymour Papert - Closing Session 1994 NSBA T+L Conference from Gary Stager on Vimeo.

2. Research Gaming

Choose the field of your interest.

1. Go to D2L.
2. Pick 2 articles that pertain to your area of interest.
3. Find another article.
4. Synthesize the articles on document... IF you want to be creative, do so. If not, write in a word doc.

Using a Game to Create 3D Images

• NY Times Article - X-box®
• http://www.youtube.com/user/okreylos#p/u/4/7QrnwoO1-8A

Gaming Genres:

• http://digitalplay.info/blog/2011/05/10-gaming-genres-to-adapt-in-class/

New Game Creation Tool:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hey_kids_build_your_own_video_games_with_stencyl.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Google+Reader